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    Nags Head Affair
    Nags Head Affair
    Nags Head Affair
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    Nags Head Affair

    By T.L. Peters

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    A successful young lawyer hoping to live a simple and care free life flees the corporate rat race and moves into a small house along the Outer Banks of North Carolina. But his quiet world is turned completely around when he meets a charming young French girl with lethal intentions. Check out this fun-filled, fast-paced thriller for a quick and entertaining summer read. And while you're at it, take a look at Peters' two other fun and fast-paced thrillers set along the beautiful coastal region of North Carolina, An Ocracoke Affair and An Outer Banks Vacation.

    Praise for a companion novel, A Pittsburgh Affair

    "I found [A Pittsburgh Affair] to be thrilling and full of suspense." Tanya at All Things Books

    "[I]t was a fast-paced thriller, sometimes even a bit humorous. I especially loved Moonglow. She was super awesome, and she kicked ass. Literally." Ashton The Book Blogger.

    "A Pittsburgh Affair is very fast paced, and I soon found myself whisked away on Spencer's adventure of suspense and intrigue….Suspense is prevalent, especially as the novel develops, yet Peters juxtaposes it nicely with comic relief as the characters find themselves in harrowing situations and making unorthodox decisions." Shana at A Book Vacation

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherT.L. Peters
    Release dateJul 13, 2011
    ISBN9781465778765
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    T.L. Peters

    "There's no question that Peters is a master wordsmith." Gerry B's Book Reviews About the author: T.L. Peters is an ex-lawyer who enjoys playing the violin and giving his dog long walks in the woods. In between, he writes novels.

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      Nags Head Affair - T.L. Peters

      Nags Head Affair

      By T.L. Peters

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright 2011 T.L. Peters

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      This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people or real locales are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

      To read more about the author and his other books, go to http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/tlpeters.

      T.L. Peters’ way of writing is wonderful. Kyanara

      Chapter 1

      Jimmy Spiegel wanted out. He wanted out from the first day he sauntered into the musty hallways of Bane and Black as a lowly summer associate. His disdain for all matters pertaining to the law only increased when he received an offer for permanent employment. Jimmy gobbled up the offer though, as fast as he could. The job paid, and Jimmy was smart enough to know that he was good at being a lawyer, really good. It was the only thing in life he had any talent for, at least anything that paid so well. He couldn't be an entrepreneur because he had no head for administration and couldn't come up with an original idea to save his life. He sometimes enjoyed playing the guitar, even though he labored mightily to carry a tune, and he hoped that when he retired he'd have more time to practice his chords as a hobby. But retirement was what Jimmy was really after. The earlier, the better. But how could a tedious numbskull like him, admittedly with a knack for legal chicanery, pull off such a miracle?

      Jimmy had a simple answer. He could live at home and save almost every cent he made. That was how. And because Bane and Black was located in his hometown of Cleveland, and because his widowed dad needed his only son to help him around the house, the arrangement seemed sensible enough. Jimmy didn't count on the old fellow getting sick during his fourth year out of law school, but Jimmy worked through the inconveniences. His dad refused to go to a nursing home, so Jimmy looked after him as best he could. And when his dad died during Jimmy's sixth year out of law school, Jimmy inherited the two hundred thousand dollars that the old man had managed to scrape together from forty years working in the post office, not to mention his good sense in opting to lock in for twenty years the thirteen percent interest rates available on certificates of deposit during the Carter Administration.

      His dad's death left Jimmy with about $450,000 in liquid assets, since Jimmy had been dutifully socking away every cent he could. Jimmy had only taken one vacation in six years, and that was a week long driving trip to the Outer Banks, Nags Head in particular. And Jimmy had quickly fallen in love with the place, the white beaches, the warm salty ocean water that when he was floating on his back on a calm day felt like some echo from his mother's womb, and most of all the relatively low cost of living compared to other resort towns. He even investigated housing prices. They were more expensive than Cleveland, but if he bought a small cottage a half mile or so away from the ocean on the other side of busy Route 158, he thought he could swing it for about two hundred and fifty grand. He figured that he would need at least another $700,000 to live on, since Jimmy had learned to live cheap, real cheap.

      So after his dad died, Jimmy kept on slaving away, churning out sale-leaseback and bank loan deals like they were pancakes. He even made partner after his eighth year at the firm, and his annual salary shot up to more than three hundred thousand dollars. With the added income Jimmy soon started counting the days when he could skip town and live the good life. But there were problems. Health care insurance was going up all the time, and there were costs in maintaining even a simple residence that Jimmy hadn't thought of when his dad was alive, like the new roof he had to put on when the old one sprung a gaping leak over his bedroom, and the new furnace he had to buy when the original one conked out on a freezing January morning.

      For a while it seemed as though Jimmy, even with his newly minted partnership status, would have to wait until well into his forties before he could retire. But lucky for Jimmy, he made one really good investment. On a hunch, or maybe out of desperation, he bought fifty thousand dollars worth of the common stock of a little company called Netflix in the summer of 2008 at around twenty nine dollars a share. And on July 7, 2011, when the stock was selling for about $293 a share, he sold it at a $450,000 profit. That gave him, after taxes and after he sold his dad's house, a total net worth of about one million two hundred thousand dollars. Plenty enough to retire to a simple life along the Atlantic Ocean, he thought.

      So that was what Jimmy did. He gave two weeks' notice and promptly took his first vacation in three years to travel down to the Outer Banks and purchase his dream house. It turned out to be a one story, single family, detached, wood frame with 1,402 square feet of heated living area located near the center of the little town of Nags Head. It had a dining room, a kitchen, two bedrooms ( a luxury for Jimmy just in case he got really lucky with the ladies once in a while) and a cozy bath. The foundation was piling, the carpet and exterior were vinyl, the roof was asphalt/ fiber shingle, and it had central heating and air, municipal water and a private septic tank. It was even outfitted with a dishwasher, an electric dryer, a microwave, a range/oven, a small refrigerator and a washer. The home was furnished with two cherry wood tables and six oak chairs, two

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